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Public fatigued by masterplan mania
Residents on the controversial Aylesbury Estate in south London have complained of masterplan fatigue after it emerged this week that they are to be regaled with another masterplan, the fifth in eight years.
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Architecture returns to St Martins college
A fully fledged architecture course is set to return to one of London’s most celebrated art colleges after an absence of more than 50 years.
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Bigger fees for better buildings
Architects could be paid more if a new hospital building improved patient recovery times or a new college improved exam results under new plans being considered by the RIBA.The institute is exploring how fees can be calculated according to the performance of a building, rather than as a percentage of ...
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Lottery may demand £9m cash back on Hodder pool
Sport England could claim back the £9 million it spent on the Clissold Leisure Centre if the building never reopens.
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NewsShanghai shell shock
Richard Rogers Partnership’s design for a £700 million expansion of Shanghai airport has been edged out by a competing US design.The practice was told that its striking design, including a shell-like undulating roof for the airport extension, had lost out to one by US firm Yang Molen.The designers worked on ...
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NewsHigh hopes for Geordie tower
Ian Simpson is bidding to add Newcastle upon Tyne to the growing list of English cities where he is building residential skyscrapers.The Manchester-based architect is in pre-planning talks with the city council to build a 50-storey tower as part of a mixed development on former brewery land next to Newcastle ...
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NewsHit and miss
Foster & Partners’ Millau viaduct (above) in southern France reached a major milestone this week when the two ends of the 225m-tall bridge, across a 2.5km-wide gorge, met in the middle.Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, which hosted Hitler’s infamous 1936 games, has reopened with a striking new roof by architect Volkwin Marg. ...
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Terry Farrell & Partners has been appointed by Camden council to carry out an assessment on the possibility of a major new public square outside King’s Cross station.George Cox, outgoing director-general at the Institute of Directors, is to be the new director of the Design Council. He will start in ...
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Power play
The Scottish Executive has announced a £51 million boost for sporting facilities, raising hopes of a new range of world-class venues. Edinburgh and Glasgow each received £17 million. The government has launched a consultation paper on proposals to tackle the risk to Britain’s built environment from flooding over the next ...
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Milton Keynes homes plan is disjointed
The strategy behind the government’s push for more than 300,000 homes in the Milton Keynes and south Midlands area has been branded “rushed and disjointed” by an independent panel.
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NewsAlsop dunks the donut
Alsop Architects has toned down its usual lively style for the revamp of New Street Station in Birmingham. Alsop was sent back to the drawing board at the end of last year after presenting a scheme to Birmingham City Council that apparently resembled a large, purple donut.The station is in ...
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Moving in day finally arrives at Holyrood
Scottish Parliament staff finally began moving into the new Holyrood building this week as presiding officer George Reid admitted the project was “a major failure in public procurement in Scotland”.
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NewsSensory perception
Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop has unveiled concept images of its new school in Glasgow for the sensory impaired. The £500,000 Dumbreck School has been designed so that pupils can wander in safety, increasing their sense of independence without putting them at risk. The scheme was designed in conjunction with ...
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EH pulls plug on Brighton pier rescue
English Heritage has dashed hopes of restoring Brighton’s derelict West Pier by withdrawing support for any bids to save the badly damaged structure.
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Ungreen Olympics
Greenpeace has criticised the Olympic Village in Athens for ignoring environmental targets.
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Scottish plans set to go online
The Scottish Executive has rejected claims that publishing planning applications online could encourage copyright theft and burglary.
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NewsSpotcheck: North-east
Library shortlistBuilding Design Partnership, FaulknerBrown and a third, unnamed, practice are in the running for the £27 million PFI contract to demolish and replace Basil Spence’s Central Library in Newcastle. The flagship new library will replace Spence’s 1960s creation, which features a concrete fin facade similar to his library in ...
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Minister: Did we miss vital prefab safety checks?
The government has admitted vital safety checks on the design of pre-fabricated estates across the UK may have been neglected.
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NewsPublic inconvenience
Vigilante consumers will target public buildings in a one-night blitz, testing how they have been adapted for disabled access. But architects and building owners still aren’t doing enough.